Developing the Teacher Workforce: Motivation before, during, and after Teacher Training
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 8663
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues:
The 21st century has brought profound changes to the teaching profession. Accountability policies, weakened unions, and the coronavirus pandemic have altered the work, rewards, and appeal of teaching. Given that research has shown the importance of teacher quality on student outcomes, we need to learn more about what it will take to ensure a strong teaching workforce in the future.
I am pleased to announce plans for a Special Issue of the journal Education Sciences that will address questions of how to attract more people to the teaching profession and how to keep experienced teachers. For example,
- What motivates college students to enroll in teacher education programs?
- What characteristics of teacher education programs inspire students to graduate and enter teaching?
- How do schools recruit teachers, especially in hard-to-staff positions and locations?
- What causes some teachers to leave the profession and others to stay?
- What are the benefits of having a diverse teaching workforce? How can that degree of diversity be achieved?
- What are aspiring teachers looking for in a career in education and how do they hope to achieve those things?
- How have culture wars, coronavirus, and education reform affected aspiring and current teachers’ expectations for their careers?
It is my hope to produce a Special Issue that draws upon a variety of disciplines, methods, and perspectives to address these questions with strong analyses of evidence and thoughtful weighing of public education goals. Submissions from the fields of education, public policy, sociology, psychology, and beyond are welcome, as are both qualitative and quantitative methods. The unifying theme of the issue will be a focus on strengthening the supply of effective teachers.
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I look forward to receiving your contributions. Please pass this invitation along to others who may be interested.
Dr. Jason Giersch
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- teacher motivation
- teacher recruitment
- teachers’ work
- teacher education
- teacher shortage
- teacher professional development
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